The somewhat fanciful theory that 9/11 blasted a hole in the space-time continuum and propelled us all into an inverted alternate universe – Bizarro World – where up is down, right is left, and the President of the United States is the most uninformed...
Tragedy and Farce
Seven months after the horrific pogrom that raged across the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo, the occupiers are poised to lead its perpetrators a step close to their coveted ultimate prize. Elections scheduled for Oct. 23 were designed to establish the Albanian...
Fear of Draft Affecting Election
With the presidential election coming down to the wire, the possibility of a revived military draft is looming as a potentially decisive factor in the outcome. While President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans vehemently reject any suggestion that a draft,...
Muslim-American Support for ‘War on Terror’ Plummets
While the Bush administration expresses frustration that its motivations in the "war on terrorism" are questioned throughout the Islamic world, it has a similar problem with Muslims at home, according to a major survey [.pdf] of nearly 2,000 followers of...
US Lifts Haitian Arms Embargo as Tensions Mount
Amid growing reports of violence in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, the United States announced Tuesday it will consider requests to sell weapons to the country's interim government on a case-by-case basis, signaling the end to a 13-year arms embargo. The decision,...
A GI’s Mother Looks at Iraq
A month ago I wrote a dispatch, "Incident on Haifa Street," considering news reports about a bloody set of encounters in downtown Baghdad, only a few hundred yards from the heavily fortified, American-occupied Green Zone. A day or two later, I visited the...
Disengagement Turns Israeli Politics Upside Down
JERUSALEM - Israel has been gripped by disengagement fever since the opening of the winter session of Parliament, the Knesset, last week. In a few days lawmakers will have to vote on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposal to withdraw the army from the Gaza Strip and...
Backtalk, September 21, 2004
Antiwar Arguments for WarGood, well-reasoned article but no mention of our relationship to Israel as a major cause of anti-Americanism in the Middle East!~ Tim McCormickAnthony Gregory replies:Thanks for the kind words. I don't think the Israel factor needs to be...
Kerry’s Cowardly Convergence
French political scientist Pierre Rosanvallon was not describing the Bush administration when he wrote, "[They] speak like Tocqueville but continue to think like Robespierre." Had he been referring to the Bushies rather than to France's elites, he might have said that...
Delusions of Empire
Ron Suskind, former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, has a piece in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine that is the talk of the internet, and with good reason: it is...